What is a Trust Champion? A Trust Champion is the person who helps their organization measure and meet their internal compliance obligations. Their actions support revenue-generating activities, protect their organization from legal and contractual liabilities, and enable the organization to confidently and transparently showcase an intentional, robust, and differentiated culture of trust. Beth White – Founder & CEO – has been greatly involved with MeBeBot’s compliance procedure.

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Many industries are affected by skills gaps, but according to Cybersecurity Ventures, the shortage within the IT/cybersecurity sector is nearly unmatched: Over an eight-year period, the number of unfilled cybersecurity jobs increased from one million positions in 2013 to 3.5 million in 2021.

Threat hunting is a critical security function, a proactive measure to detect warning signs and head off attacks before a breach can occur. Scaling threat hunting capabilities involves quickly deriving actionable intelligence from a large number of behavioral data signals to identify gaps and reduce time to respond.

Data privacy rules have never been crucial for organisations to follow until the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enforcement. This blog is divided into two sections. The first section will discuss a general overview, definitions and common queries related to a data protection policy. The second section will explain how a business can write and operationalise a data protection policy.

Large-scale data breaches are flooding headlines, as major security incidents like ransomware and supply chain attacks become more strategic by the day. Organizations that fail to address their cybersecurity blindspots in such a volatile threat landscape will inevitably suffer a data breach.

Not all of the recognizable risks in your software supply chain can be identified by their known vulnerabilities recorded as CVEs. A component that is outdated or inactive may present risks to your application that no one has had cause to investigate. Yet these components could still harbor threats.

Amid a wave of hacks that have cost investors billions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency, the FBI is calling on decentralised finance (DeFi) platforms to improve their security. In a warning posted on its website, the FBI said that cybercriminals are increasingly targeting DeFi platforms to steal cryptocurrency, often exploiting vulnerabilities in smart contracts to part investors from their money.

Introduce yourself and tell us what you do for your day job. My name is Dr. Joseph J. Burt-Miller Jr. I currently serve as Assistant Project Manager at the Department of Homeland Security. One of my main duties is handling the risk management piece for projects, so interacting with contractors and our risk owners, ensures that our risks are tracked and mitigated. Anything that needs immediate attention I bring to my leadership, my project manager and program manager, etc.

Throughout the pandemic, the increasing number of security vulnerabilities affecting major products and services reached alarming levels, according to our analysis of NIST’s (National Institute of Standards and Technology) National Vulnerability Database data.